Thursday, January 30, 2020

Science in SF

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A LOCUS article by Kelly Lagor discusses how accurate the science in science fiction needs to be: Putting the Science in Science Fiction ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Reviews 52 - The New Improved Sorceress, Book Two of Wayward Mages

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Reviews 52 The New Improved Sorceress Book Two  of  Wayward Mages Reviews posts have not been indexed. The previous book by Sar...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Damned If You Do...

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Social media is a minefield. Anyone can make an accusation, anyone can repeat terminological inexactitudes, and although a reasonable pers...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Anticipating Androids

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In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein apparently constructed his creature by stitching together parts of cadavers. (His first-per...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Reviews 51 - Shield of the People, a novel of the Maradaine Elite by Marshall Ryan Maresca

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Reviews 51 Shield of the People a novel of the Maradaine Elite by Marshall Ryan Maresca This is the second in the Maradaine sub-s...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Best of Good Faith, Worst of Bad Faith

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Good Faith (or bona fides, or Fair Dealing) is the concept of sincerely intending to deal fairly with others without malice or the intention...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Freedom of Speech Online

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column explores the distinction between freedom of speech in the legal sense and the pragmatic limitations ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Headlines to Rip Stories From - Part 1

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Headlines to Rip Stories From Part 1  OK, from which to rip stories! But who says that? Since my house has been undergoing renovation...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

B.Y.O.B. (On Acronyms and Metonymy)

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With acronyms, one has a choice. B.Y.O. or B.Y.O.B. traditionally suggests Bring (you own....) and the optional, final "B" could...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Adaptation Weirdness

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Has anyone else here watched the new DRACULA miniseries streaming on Netflix? This post includes spoilers on the assumption that by now anyo...
Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Sime~Gen Book 15 Now in Kindle, iBooks, and Paper

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Sime~Gen Book 15 Now in Kindle, iBooks, and Paper  Here we are now in 2020, and just at the end of 2019, the 15th volume of my Sime~Gen...
Saturday, January 04, 2020

One New Piracy Host, One Old Pirates' Friend

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Linked In owns Slide Share. It looks like Slide Share makes available a lot more than slides. https://www.slideshare.net/ Linked In is p...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

SF Seasons

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Happy New Year! The days begin to lengthen, even if imperceptibly at first, but nevertheless I have to brace myself for over two months mor...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 12 - What You Learned As A Kid

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 12 What You Learned As A Kid  Previous parts in the Worldbuilding From Reality series: https://alien...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Heinous Hacks

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There are certain times of day, and certain light conditions under which persons of a certain age with either glaucoma or cataracts or epile...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Discontinuities

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Happy midwinter holidays! I hope everybody who celebrates Christmas had a merry one. One of my most thrilling gifts was a DVD set of IN THE ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Worldbuilding from Reality Part 11 - Worldbuilding Does Not a Story Make

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Worldbuilding from Reality Part 11 Worldbuilding Does Not a Story Make by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous posts in the Worldbuild...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Smart Christmas

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For those who visit Pennsylvania and are unfortunate enough to be stopped by the police, the good news is that the authorities in that State...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

The Holiday Stories of Connie Willis

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If you feel in the mood for winter-holiday-themed stories, pick up A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS (2017), by Connie Willis. This volume is an expansio...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

All About Face...And Image

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This last week, the theme has been legal reversals (about face), about amusing, face-changing apps that come embedded with hidden dangers, a...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

Finding Time to Write

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Marion Zimmer Bradley recommended stay-at-home motherhood as the perfect job for a writer, because writing can be performed in short bursts ...